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Patch "netfilter: ctnetlink: put back references to master ct and expect objects" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

netfilter: ctnetlink: put back references to master ct and expect objects

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
netfilter-ctnetlink-put-back-references-to-master-ct-and-expect-objects.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From 95dd8653de658143770cb0e55a58d2aab97c79d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 22:56:00 +0200
Subject: netfilter: ctnetlink: put back references to master ct and expect objects

From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <[email protected]>

commit 95dd8653de658143770cb0e55a58d2aab97c79d2 upstream.

We have to put back the references to the master conntrack and the expectation that we just created, otherwise we'll leak them.

Fixes 0ef71ee1a5b9 ("netfilter: ctnetlink: refactor ctnetlink_create_expect")
---
 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c |    5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c +0 -5
@@ -2927,11 +2927,6 @@ ctnetlink_create_expect(struct net *net,
 	}
 
 	err = nf_ct_expect_related_report(exp, portid, report);
-	if (err < 0)
-		goto err_exp;
-
-	return 0;
-err_exp:
 	nf_ct_expect_put(exp);
 err_ct:
 	nf_ct_put(ct);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.14/netfilter-nft_compat-skip-family-comparison-in-case-of-nfproto_unspec.patch queue-3.14/netfilter-nf_conntrack-support-expectations-in-different-zones.patch queue-3.14/netfilter-ctnetlink-put-back-references-to-master-ct-and-expect-objects.patch